** AUSTRALIA. 11387-USB, Sept 4 at 1333, YL with flight weather, ID as ``Australian VOLMET, out`` and off; didn`t hear much, unsure if robotic, also QRM from various ute noises. This reference
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet.htm
shows AXQ421, Brisbane, on the hour and half-hour, presumably 24 hours, u.o.s.; alternating in this order every 5 minutes with Calcutta [sic], Bangkok, Karachi, Singapore, Bombay, but the middle three are not 24h (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 4, before 1300:
16100, poor at 1251; none higher
15900, fair-good at 1254
15565, JBA at 1253 vs 15562 het
14700, fair at 1254
13920, fair at 1254
12270, poor at 1256
10300, poor at 1256
After 1300:
7445, poor at 1305, SAH with something. Unusual here; normally it`s CNR1 jamming vs Chinese from R. Taiwan International (and CNR8 Beijing in Mongolian also scheduled this hour on 7445)
15280, very poor at 1315 vs het 15283
15900, good with flutter at 1313
16100, JBA at 1315
1330-1400:
12270, fair at 1330
13920, poor at 1351
15900, good at 1354 with heavy flutter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, Sept 4 at 0509, RHC on late in Spanish, so 5025 R. Rebelde still has its companion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 17460-17485, Sept 4 at 1355, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, QRMing Spanish SSB 2-way on 17474 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Sept 4 at 1246, AFN is back, detectable with W&W discussion, but not // NPR delayed on KOSU 91.7 with a different W&W interview. Ron Howard says it has been absent more than present recently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 9905-9910-9915, Sept 4 at 1307 DRM noise. Nothing in HFCC except KTWR analog at 1100-1230 in Chinese, which we have often heard, with a continuous het, jamming? Assume this is also KTWR testing DRM, as in this item from their DRM blog pointed out by Alokesh Gupta:
http://ktwrdrm.blogspot.com/2011/09/content-server-test.html
which shows 9910 as their DRM frequency without any exact schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRELAND [non]. Tnx to Harry Brooks in North East England for alerting DXLD yg members two days in advance to the annual SW specials from RTÉ, Sunday Sept 4, the GAA All-Ireland Hurling Finals, to reach isolated Irishpersons in Africa depending on SW: 1300-1700 UT on 17880 to E Africa, 17500 to W Africa and 7480 to S Africa.
Sites not specified, but likely Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA, meaning that 17500 should carry on best to NAm. However, we had to warn that 17880 would collide with another special no one bothered to register with HFCC or clear directly with other broadcasters: DRM test from Guiana French to Brasil on 17875-17880-17885, Sept 1-15 at 1300-1600.
Might not be a problem in E African target, but as expected here, Sept 4 at 1300 and later, DRM was way atop any traces of analog talk on 17880. DRM totally dominant at 1358. 17500 at 1300 had very poor signal with talk in sport-like urgency as if it were something important, and only got weaker, often interrupted by ``bronx-cheers`` utility such as at 1357, otherwise JBA. As also expected, the third frequency 7480 would not propagate here at all, checked anyway at 1304 in WWCR 7490 splatter.
Ireland will have another such special Sunday Sept 18, the All-Ireland Football Final on the same frequencies at the same times.
These might be of more interest if there were SW direct from Ireland, and also not just silly ballgames. RTÉ does have a daily news relay via South Africa at 1930-2030 on 5840, inaudible of course in North America; often reported to have ragged starts and ends typical of Meyerton, with other stations or programs around the edges (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15610, looking for IRRS via ROMANIA, Sept 4 at 1259 but nothing audible; 1304 I can make out Brother Scare, came on late? And also at a few chex later in hour, so no KQED et al. today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. During evening thunderstorm, external antennas disconnected, so a chance to do some MW monitoring on the DX-398 with internal antenna, which is my usual setup at sunrise:
770, UT Sept 4 at 0244, plug for ``Grupo Fórmula, en todo el país, y Estados Unidos``, dominating frequency. Cantú shows:
770 XEACH Radio Fórmula Primer Cadena Monterrey, N.L. 25,000 1,000
Sounds more like 25 kW than one to me
880, Sept 4 at 1159 UT, network ID only for 970, XERFR in the DF, Grupo Fórmula. As usual, their only outlet on 880 is per Cantú:
880 XEV Radio Fórmula Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
1040, Sept 4 at 1213 UT, slogan as ``Vega(?), la Número Uno,`` funny song ``Qué guapo soy, que bárbaro``; 1216 TC for 5:20 ``en La Once, la Número Uno``. Once again it`s this; not sure about the Vega reference:
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Son. 5,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, UT Sept 4 at 0237 steady open carrier from direxion of Stillwater, no doubt 250-watt daytimer KSPI, illegally making fast SAH of approx. 12 Hz with mutually-nullable WBBM. Could not however detect the usual +/- 4 kHz spurs from KSPI; perhaps they appear only while modulating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, KGWA Enid, my local, Sunday Sept 4 first noticed around 1200 UT that it was dead air, with some hum; still at 1221. At 1229, what I thought had been some weak station underneath was realized axually to be just-barely-modulation from KGWA itself since it was absolutely steady. Risked turning up the volume: something about a camp in Abilene, Civil War history. Is no one paying attention at Williams Broadcasting? Still the same at 1237. Or, is no one at Williams Broadcasting? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17600, Sept 4 at 1317, ``Typewriter Song`` by Leroy Anderson, complete with end-of-carriage bells, inexplicable to the kiddies, so I bet an RRI mailbag segment had just ended; into bit of rock music, Chinese announcement, classical. Poor but facilitated by absence of Spain from 17595 on Sundays, a detail missing from their HFCC registrations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA [and non]. 7275, no signal at 0505 Sept 4 from one our regulars often listened to as a lullaby; supposed to be on from 0400v to 0626*. Earlier I noticed it on 9725. Not sure if 12005 (scheduled to 0510) was still on as higher-band propagation is declining. 7295, Algeria via France was still in well as a substitute, mostly Qur`aning. As was 7245, Mauritania with non-chanting music now.
In keeping with our policy of referring to Arabic-speaking stations by proper Arabic names, or acronymized, instead of French or something, Radio Tunisienne is really per WRTH 2010 page 368: ``Idha`atu-l-Wataniya at-Tunisiya`` = IWT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 580, UT Sunday at 1207, President Obama`s weekly `media` address on need for Congress to pass transportation bill ASAP upon reconvening. 1209 segué to Home Depot ad with no outro, no doubt our daytime dominator WIBW Topeka, doing its duty by broadcasting the president, but in the Sunday morning ghetto for as small an audience as possible some 22 hours after original availability.
Checking program schedule at
http://580wibw.com/programs.html
this is listed as 7:00-7:15 am Sundays, tho he never runs more than 5 minutes. WIBW is not so bad with the only obvious far-right wacko on its lineup being Glenn Beck, partly because of its dual identity as sports talk and regular talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, UT Sept 4 at 0259, Spanish song mentioning `pecados` = sins, making me suspect it`s the gospel huxter in TX also heard before sunrise: yes, at 0301 UT, in QRM caught ``Farwell`` mentioned in ID. So KIJN is Doing God`s Work illegally at night, as FCC AM Query confirms its licensed strictly as a 10 kW daytimer:
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=4931
And the SR/SS times for it converted to UT are:
September 1230-0100
October 1300-0015
November 1330-2345
December 1345-2345
Anything beyond that is `cheating` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, open carrier, UT Sunday Sept 4 at 1224, loops for my groundwave semi-local in Wichita, KQAM, which is supposedly 24 hours. 1232 recheck, now modulating a gospel huxter proclaimed it`s almost 2010 near the end of 2009. Wonder if he`s dead by now like PPP, DGS, or as good as dead like `Tony Alámo`, Harold Camping (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, Sept 4 at 0455 I notice WTWW-3 is still going in Portuguese Bible-reading; vanished at 0459:30* when I was not listening closely, but don`t think there was a sign-off. It returns circa 1300v in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17510, Sept 4 at 1302 while checking for IRELAND [non] on 17500, found huge buzzing carrier here with frying sound. Next check at 1318, 17510 was off, but I have little doubt it was a tuneup/test from WHRI, which does occupy 17510 later on Sundays: 1408 VG with screaming gospel huxter. But not any more if we may believe HFCC registrations showing WHRI 17510 expires Sept 4: had been Sat/Sun 1400-1500 at 57 degrees, Mon-Sat 1500-1600 at 87 degrees. But that doesn`t mean it was even really on the air all those hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15145, very poor Sept 4 at 1326, Khmer talk mentioning Washington several times, so suspect IBB; cut off at 1329 without a VOA closing. Yes, HFCC shows 15145, 1230-1330, 250 kW, 73 degrees in Khmer via Iranawila, SRI LANKA, and Aoki refines it as RFA rather than VOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet.htm
shows AXQ421, Brisbane, on the hour and half-hour, presumably 24 hours, u.o.s.; alternating in this order every 5 minutes with Calcutta [sic], Bangkok, Karachi, Singapore, Bombay, but the middle three are not 24h (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 4, before 1300:
16100, poor at 1251; none higher
15900, fair-good at 1254
15565, JBA at 1253 vs 15562 het
14700, fair at 1254
13920, fair at 1254
12270, poor at 1256
10300, poor at 1256
After 1300:
7445, poor at 1305, SAH with something. Unusual here; normally it`s CNR1 jamming vs Chinese from R. Taiwan International (and CNR8 Beijing in Mongolian also scheduled this hour on 7445)
15280, very poor at 1315 vs het 15283
15900, good with flutter at 1313
16100, JBA at 1315
1330-1400:
12270, fair at 1330
13920, poor at 1351
15900, good at 1354 with heavy flutter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, Sept 4 at 0509, RHC on late in Spanish, so 5025 R. Rebelde still has its companion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 17460-17485, Sept 4 at 1355, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, QRMing Spanish SSB 2-way on 17474 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Sept 4 at 1246, AFN is back, detectable with W&W discussion, but not // NPR delayed on KOSU 91.7 with a different W&W interview. Ron Howard says it has been absent more than present recently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 9905-9910-9915, Sept 4 at 1307 DRM noise. Nothing in HFCC except KTWR analog at 1100-1230 in Chinese, which we have often heard, with a continuous het, jamming? Assume this is also KTWR testing DRM, as in this item from their DRM blog pointed out by Alokesh Gupta:
http://ktwrdrm.blogspot.com/2011/09/content-server-test.html
which shows 9910 as their DRM frequency without any exact schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRELAND [non]. Tnx to Harry Brooks in North East England for alerting DXLD yg members two days in advance to the annual SW specials from RTÉ, Sunday Sept 4, the GAA All-Ireland Hurling Finals, to reach isolated Irishpersons in Africa depending on SW: 1300-1700 UT on 17880 to E Africa, 17500 to W Africa and 7480 to S Africa.
Sites not specified, but likely Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA, meaning that 17500 should carry on best to NAm. However, we had to warn that 17880 would collide with another special no one bothered to register with HFCC or clear directly with other broadcasters: DRM test from Guiana French to Brasil on 17875-17880-17885, Sept 1-15 at 1300-1600.
Might not be a problem in E African target, but as expected here, Sept 4 at 1300 and later, DRM was way atop any traces of analog talk on 17880. DRM totally dominant at 1358. 17500 at 1300 had very poor signal with talk in sport-like urgency as if it were something important, and only got weaker, often interrupted by ``bronx-cheers`` utility such as at 1357, otherwise JBA. As also expected, the third frequency 7480 would not propagate here at all, checked anyway at 1304 in WWCR 7490 splatter.
Ireland will have another such special Sunday Sept 18, the All-Ireland Football Final on the same frequencies at the same times.
These might be of more interest if there were SW direct from Ireland, and also not just silly ballgames. RTÉ does have a daily news relay via South Africa at 1930-2030 on 5840, inaudible of course in North America; often reported to have ragged starts and ends typical of Meyerton, with other stations or programs around the edges (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15610, looking for IRRS via ROMANIA, Sept 4 at 1259 but nothing audible; 1304 I can make out Brother Scare, came on late? And also at a few chex later in hour, so no KQED et al. today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. During evening thunderstorm, external antennas disconnected, so a chance to do some MW monitoring on the DX-398 with internal antenna, which is my usual setup at sunrise:
770, UT Sept 4 at 0244, plug for ``Grupo Fórmula, en todo el país, y Estados Unidos``, dominating frequency. Cantú shows:
770 XEACH Radio Fórmula Primer Cadena Monterrey, N.L. 25,000 1,000
Sounds more like 25 kW than one to me
880, Sept 4 at 1159 UT, network ID only for 970, XERFR in the DF, Grupo Fórmula. As usual, their only outlet on 880 is per Cantú:
880 XEV Radio Fórmula Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
1040, Sept 4 at 1213 UT, slogan as ``Vega(?), la Número Uno,`` funny song ``Qué guapo soy, que bárbaro``; 1216 TC for 5:20 ``en La Once, la Número Uno``. Once again it`s this; not sure about the Vega reference:
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Son. 5,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, UT Sept 4 at 0237 steady open carrier from direxion of Stillwater, no doubt 250-watt daytimer KSPI, illegally making fast SAH of approx. 12 Hz with mutually-nullable WBBM. Could not however detect the usual +/- 4 kHz spurs from KSPI; perhaps they appear only while modulating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, KGWA Enid, my local, Sunday Sept 4 first noticed around 1200 UT that it was dead air, with some hum; still at 1221. At 1229, what I thought had been some weak station underneath was realized axually to be just-barely-modulation from KGWA itself since it was absolutely steady. Risked turning up the volume: something about a camp in Abilene, Civil War history. Is no one paying attention at Williams Broadcasting? Still the same at 1237. Or, is no one at Williams Broadcasting? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17600, Sept 4 at 1317, ``Typewriter Song`` by Leroy Anderson, complete with end-of-carriage bells, inexplicable to the kiddies, so I bet an RRI mailbag segment had just ended; into bit of rock music, Chinese announcement, classical. Poor but facilitated by absence of Spain from 17595 on Sundays, a detail missing from their HFCC registrations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA [and non]. 7275, no signal at 0505 Sept 4 from one our regulars often listened to as a lullaby; supposed to be on from 0400v to 0626*. Earlier I noticed it on 9725. Not sure if 12005 (scheduled to 0510) was still on as higher-band propagation is declining. 7295, Algeria via France was still in well as a substitute, mostly Qur`aning. As was 7245, Mauritania with non-chanting music now.
In keeping with our policy of referring to Arabic-speaking stations by proper Arabic names, or acronymized, instead of French or something, Radio Tunisienne is really per WRTH 2010 page 368: ``Idha`atu-l-Wataniya at-Tunisiya`` = IWT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 580, UT Sunday at 1207, President Obama`s weekly `media` address on need for Congress to pass transportation bill ASAP upon reconvening. 1209 segué to Home Depot ad with no outro, no doubt our daytime dominator WIBW Topeka, doing its duty by broadcasting the president, but in the Sunday morning ghetto for as small an audience as possible some 22 hours after original availability.
Checking program schedule at
http://580wibw.com/programs.html
this is listed as 7:00-7:15 am Sundays, tho he never runs more than 5 minutes. WIBW is not so bad with the only obvious far-right wacko on its lineup being Glenn Beck, partly because of its dual identity as sports talk and regular talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, UT Sept 4 at 0259, Spanish song mentioning `pecados` = sins, making me suspect it`s the gospel huxter in TX also heard before sunrise: yes, at 0301 UT, in QRM caught ``Farwell`` mentioned in ID. So KIJN is Doing God`s Work illegally at night, as FCC AM Query confirms its licensed strictly as a 10 kW daytimer:
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=4931
And the SR/SS times for it converted to UT are:
September 1230-0100
October 1300-0015
November 1330-2345
December 1345-2345
Anything beyond that is `cheating` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, open carrier, UT Sunday Sept 4 at 1224, loops for my groundwave semi-local in Wichita, KQAM, which is supposedly 24 hours. 1232 recheck, now modulating a gospel huxter proclaimed it`s almost 2010 near the end of 2009. Wonder if he`s dead by now like PPP, DGS, or as good as dead like `Tony Alámo`, Harold Camping (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, Sept 4 at 0455 I notice WTWW-3 is still going in Portuguese Bible-reading; vanished at 0459:30* when I was not listening closely, but don`t think there was a sign-off. It returns circa 1300v in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17510, Sept 4 at 1302 while checking for IRELAND [non] on 17500, found huge buzzing carrier here with frying sound. Next check at 1318, 17510 was off, but I have little doubt it was a tuneup/test from WHRI, which does occupy 17510 later on Sundays: 1408 VG with screaming gospel huxter. But not any more if we may believe HFCC registrations showing WHRI 17510 expires Sept 4: had been Sat/Sun 1400-1500 at 57 degrees, Mon-Sat 1500-1600 at 87 degrees. But that doesn`t mean it was even really on the air all those hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15145, very poor Sept 4 at 1326, Khmer talk mentioning Washington several times, so suspect IBB; cut off at 1329 without a VOA closing. Yes, HFCC shows 15145, 1230-1330, 250 kW, 73 degrees in Khmer via Iranawila, SRI LANKA, and Aoki refines it as RFA rather than VOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)